Clayton is the former home of Henry Clay Frick, a steel magnate and colleague of Andrew Carnegie. Frick was loved by his daughter and roundly hated by the rest of Pittsburgh for his role in the Homestead strike of 1892.

A ruthless businessman, he hated the unions and brought in Pinkerton guards. Seven workers were killed in the confrontation and ultimately the strike was broken.

We balance that with is love of his family, and his patronage of the arts. He suffered great personal tragedy around the time of the strike; two of his children died and he was shot and stabbed by an anarchist. Soon after, he moved his family to New York.

But his daughter, Helen Clay Frick, loved Clayton and returned to Pittsburgh as often as she could. She spent the last six years of her life at Clayton, and when she died, in 1984, she left money for the mansion to be restored and opened as a museum in honor of her father.

On the grounds at Clayton is also an art museum. We were there for a one-day Elderhostel program featuring one of the shows at the art museum, and we also enjoyed a tour of Clayton.